Tagged: science

April 21, 2013 @ 7:17 am By The Dispatch  |  

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast, and Jason Box can’t wait for a government research grant to get him there. To fund his 24th expedition, Box, a climatologist at the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, is trying something new.Crowdfunding. Box, who had… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 7:57 am By GenEngNews  |  

Poliwogg eyes biopharma startups seeking millions; Microryza connects donors to researchers needing thousands. A year has passed since President Barack Obama enacted a law intended to spark business growth by encouraging “crowdfunding” of startups. Much of the law remains to be implemented, but that hasn’t… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 7:23 am By PLOS.org  |  

The White House released its $3.78 trillion fiscal year 2014 budget plan this week after much political wrangling in Washington DC. Among the winners and losers science looks like it’s emerged victorious, with government-funded R&D showing 9% gains over 2012 levels. This news comes closely on the heels of… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 10:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas.  Popular Science has been around for a long time.  By their own records over 140 years having been founded in 1872 by Edward Youmans whose mission was to share… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 4:06 pm By StateImpact  |  

You’ve heard of Kickstarter, the website that allows everyone from budding filmmakers to student dancers, to nail polish designers, search for individual funders over the internet. Now, there are crowdfunding websites popping up that focus on scientific research. Two Juniata College professors are turning to one… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 2:02 pm By John Carroll  |  

  A new crowdfunding platform site called Microryza has started funneling cash to dozens of high-risk scientific research programs, including a number of drug development efforts that would otherwise never see the light of day.   Microryza’s co-founder, Cindy Wu, came up with the idea… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 12:57 pm By TechCrunch  |  

Do you want to know whether cannibalism existed amongst Tyrannosaurus Rexes or whetherspecific viruses contribute to lung cancer risk? Better yet, do you want to be part of making this research happen faster? A Y Combinator-backed startup called Microryza is positioning itself as a “Kickstarter” for science research. The… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 5:22 pm By O'Reilly Radar  |  

In our first science-as-a-service post, I highlighted some of the participants in the ecosystem. In this one, I want to share the changing face of funding. Throughout the 20th century, most scientific research funding has come from one of two sources: government grants or private corporations…. Read More

February 1, 2013 @ 2:26 am By TheVerge  |  

Inside an old storage warehouse in an abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen, Kristian von Bengston and Peter Madsen have been building a one-man rocket ship they intend to send on a 15-minute, parabolic trip to the edge of space and back. Von Bengston and Madsen’s non-profit,… Read More

January 25, 2013 @ 7:07 am By JD Alois  |  

A Crowdfunding Science event will be held by Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office. Titled “Crowdfunding Science: Appealing to the online community for research money” this event is scheduled to be held on January 29th. A brief description is below: With federal and state funding for science… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 4:33 am By Wired.com  |  

Readers will remember when I announced Ethan Perlstein‘s plan to crowdfund his scientific research. Well, since then, Ethan has been combining two of my interests: alternative ways of funding science and network science. In his attempt to achieve his goal of raising $25,000, Ethan has… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 5:09 am By JD Alois  |  

NEW YORK, NY, Oct 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — As the holiday season approaches, many Americans are turning their attention to end-of-the-year giving and acts of charity. Though the opportunities for philanthropy are many, and range from artistic endowments to medical research, a recent… Read More